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On 7/22/2025 at 4:24 PM, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

God damn that one hit me like a ton of fucking bricks. 

My first concert was the Sabbath reunion tour in 99 with Pantera opening for them. 

That show blew my fucking hair back like I didn’t know was possible. 

Set list:

War pigs

NIB

Fairies wear boots

After forever

Electric funeral

Into the void

Black Sabbath

Snowblind 

Iron man

Children of the grave

Paranoid

 

I still have the shirt from that tour

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Posted (edited)
8 hours ago, Goredho said:

Yeah, I was not a super huge Ozzy fan.  Black Sabbath was mostly before my time, and I was always more interested in the guitarists on Ozzy's solo albums than I was in Ozzy himself.  So since the news, I've been trying to pin down what made Ozzy the popular icon he is.  For someone who represented a musical genre, he really didn't do much to define it.  I mean, he didn't have an objectively great singing voice.  He didn't compose the music or write the lyrics that were responsible for this new musical genre and which made him famous.  I think he maybe only came up with some of the vocal melodies in his Sabbath and solo catalog.  Musically, he was a front man in the most cynical use of the word.  A figurehead who attained heights with a lot of others creativity doing most of the heavy lifting.  And he had this whole career outside of making music that was engineered primarily by his wife.

So what made Ozzy an icon?  Ultimately, I think it was that Ozzy was Ozzy and nothing more or less.  The Alamo-pissing, bat-head-biting Prince of Darkness.  And people of a certain age and social standing loved him for it.  He was the square peg to society's round hole who really had no capacity to be anything notable in established and traditional ways.  So he lived life without much regard for if or how it might line up to anyone else's expectations and damn if he didn't wind up digging himself a hell of a square hole to exist in.  That's something that resonates, man.  Timelessly, across generations.  Its the struggle of all young people coming of age and wondering how they could possibly become anything of note in a world that they seem to live on the fringes of.  If Ozzy could do it, they can do it.

It was the attitude.  “That’s metal” basically means that’s something Ozzy would do. 

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8 hours ago, Goredho said:

Yeah, I was not a super huge Ozzy fan.  Black Sabbath was mostly before my time, and I was always more interested in the guitarists on Ozzy's solo albums than I was in Ozzy himself.  So since the news, I've been trying to pin down what made Ozzy the popular icon he is.  For someone who represented a musical genre, he really didn't do much to define it.  I mean, he didn't have an objectively great singing voice.  He didn't compose the music or write the lyrics that were responsible for this new musical genre and which made him famous.  I think he maybe only came up with some of the vocal melodies in his Sabbath and solo catalog.  Musically, he was a front man in the most cynical use of the word.  A figurehead who attained heights with a lot of others creativity doing most of the heavy lifting.  And he had this whole career outside of making music that was engineered primarily by his wife.

So what made Ozzy an icon?  Ultimately, I think it was that Ozzy was Ozzy and nothing more or less.  The Alamo-pissing, bat-head-biting Prince of Darkness.  And people of a certain age and social standing loved him for it.  He was the square peg to society's round hole who really had no capacity to be anything notable in established and traditional ways.  So he lived life without much regard for if or how it might line up to anyone else's expectations and damn if he didn't wind up digging himself a hell of a square hole to exist in.  That's something that resonates, man.  Timelessly, across generations.  Its the struggle of all young people coming of age and wondering how they could possibly become anything of note in a world that they seem to live on the fringes of.  If Ozzy could do it, they can do it.

Yeah, his solo guitarists re-inspired me to hit the wood shed and practice my ass off. There were a few times I spent as much as 10 hours a day upstairs in my home studio studying Rand, Jake and Zakk. RIP Ozzy, you will be missed but I know you and Randy are already tearing it up, up there.🎸🎸🎸

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Posted

I’m gonna have to disagree with “didn’t have a great singing voice.” But it’s all subjective. 

Is there any scary music any more? I mentioned earlier that I encountered Sabbath in Jr High and it scared me a little. Same for Shout at the Devil in middle school. I remember finding Pantera and Slayer a little shocking until I fell in love with them. Are there any bands doing that to kids these days?

I hope so. Maybe we need a new PMRC. 

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41 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

I’m gonna have to disagree with “didn’t have a great singing voice.”

Yeah, I'm with you on that.  I've already copped to not being anywhere close to a Sabbath (or even metal) guy, but I've seen plenty of live clips of early Ozzy, and the guy had a very good voice.  Maybe not as pyrotechnic as Halford or Dio, but the guy could sing.

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14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, I'm with you on that.  I've already copped to not being anywhere close to a Sabbath (or even metal) guy, but I've seen plenty of live clips of early Ozzy, and the guy had a very good voice.  Maybe not as pyrotechnic as Halford or Dio, but the guy could sing.

At the time, I was largely an alternative, punk, and (ironically?) US hard rock fan.  When “Paranoid” came on MTV, all of us stopped and watched.  Ozzy was transcendent.

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